York Pa Harley Factory Tour

Just reading this. I've been there with the kids 2010 on our visit to the
states. Battlefield, York, skyline drive. We had a good time :)
Am 15.07.2013 22:27 schrieb <masonjs at nrtco.net>:
>> While you were down in PA you should have gone to the Rail Road museum
> in Lancaster and to the non town of Centralia. Centralia was a small
> coal mining town on Rte 61 near Shenandoah about 60 miles northeast of
> Harrisburg . Underground coal fires forced the evacuation of the
> town. Most of the buildings have been moved or torn down and there
> are few residents left, but there are streets with street signs, stop
> signs, sidewalks going up to steps and foundations.
>>> >
> > --- Original message ---
> > Subject: York Pa Harley Factory Tour
> > From: "Buehrle, Michael" <Michael.Buehrle at ottawa.ca>
> > To: Jim Mason <MASONJS at nrtco.net>
> > Date: Friday, 12/07/2013 6:13 PM
> >
> > I took my young adult kids to see the battlefields at Gettysburg.
> > Today was rather rainy so we made a side trip through York to see the
> > newest manufacturing facility HD has.
> > York, HD vehicle manufacturing is a mecca for any gear head traveling
> > through the area with a 2 hr. wait for the next tour. Tours go every
> > half hour. With a past life in automotive parts manufacturing, I found
> > this facility is amazingly automated, organized and clean. Kaizen
> > manufacturing is where the employees are empowered to affect the
> > improvement of the product.
> > Interestingly, their paint line is the most important part of the
> > process with absolute clean rooms being employed instead of
> > traditional paint booths. 2 colour paint jobs take 12 hrs. to complete
> > and then there is still the retouches or repair buffs to do where
> > required.
> > A couple of things come to mind from our tour:
> > 1) The image of the Harley is more important than technological
> > superiority.
> > 2)The rise and fall of HD's fortunes since 1903 have somewhat mirrored
> > America's economy, where both have seemed to stumble and accel in
> > unison. Right now HD is still in recovery mode from a big downturn but
> > still exports 30% of her 250,000 units produced.
> >
> > OK 3 things: The water main to the plant burst at the ring road and
> > they quickly installed outhouses as we arrived. I always said riding
> > one of those things was like riding a sh*thouse but they just made it
> > too easy today. See attached photo next email, if I can get Microsoft
> > webmail to work.
> >
> > Mike
> >
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